glue-sticking applications?

calmom
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:35:50 +0000

Colleges may prefer online applications, but they don’t penalize students for submitting paper ones. My daughter did paper apps to U of Chicago and Barnard and was accepted at both; she did online apps to Brown, Brandeis & Boston U. and was rejected/waitlisted. I’m not saying the online apps caused the rejections, but I do think that she felt more comfortable expressing herself on paper than electronically, and the paper apps just did a better job of conveying her personality and interests. She took a creative approach to formatting of some submissions that simply could not have been done via a form.

Highheels, an alternative to buying Adobe is to download a trial version of CutePDF Writer – it lets you type on the form and save it. The trial version has the “save” feature disabled, but “save as” works - which is just as well, since that makes it easy to save several different versions of the application. If you want to buy the software, it is a lot less expensive than Adobe - but you don’t have to - there are no time limitations on the freeware and no nagging to purchase a license.